10 Unique Homemade Valentine's Day Gift Ideas

Here are 10 unique homemade Valentine's gift ideas that are a little clever, a little romantic, and very easy to personalize as a unique expression of your love. Have a romance-filled day!

#1. Music CD Valentine Gift

With today's technology you can easily make a unique homemade Valentine's Day gift CD with all your favorite songs. Make sure to burn the CD as a CD and not a DVD so your Valentine will be able to listen to your gift in the car or on an ordinary CD player. Personalize your unique homemade Valentine's Day gift further by using printable CD labels that you can customize on your printer. Finally, be sure to create a unique homemade CD cover which you can slip into a standard CD box. Using an image of the two of you printed on glossy paper is a perfect Valentine gift idea.

#2. Love Boat Valentine Gift

Buy a Valentine's Day gift bag and cut one side out to form a thick, beautiful rectangle. Then fold the cardboard into a Valentine's paper boat. Fill the boat with chocolate hearts wrapped in red, shimmering foil paper. Then put the final touch to this unique homemade Valentine's Day gift idea by sticking a paper flag to a toothpick and piercing it through the top of the boat. On the flag write: "Shipping my heart to you."

#3. Sad Bear Valentine Gift

Stick small heart stickers like tears on the face of a cuddly bear dressed in Valentine's Day colors. Then cut out a big Valentine's card into a miniature one to personalize this unique homemade Valentine's Day gift idea. Write in the card: "Beary, beary sad without you".

#4. Poem-Scroll Valentine Gift

Imagine an ancient scroll with a Valentine-poem scrawled on, dedicated to your love. This unique homemade Valentine's Day gift idea is timeless and romantic. Begin by writing a love-poem or choosing a classic-poem (here's where to find the best Valentine's Day-poems). Next print the love-poem in Monotype Corsiva font, then crumple the paper and dip it in dark tea for 30 seconds. Finally, smooth the paper and let it dry. To add the patina of age to your unique homemade Valentine's Day gift, burn the edges of the paper. (Here are the step-by-step instructions for making the Valentine's-poem-scroll).

#5. Truckload of Love Valentine Gift

Fill a toy truck with Hersey kisses in several colors, then stick heart stickers all around the truck to give it a Valentine's Day appearance. Next stick a small square of cardboard on a popsicle stick and write the message: "A truckload of love from me to you ". Slip this plaque into the mount of kisses. Finally, add a personal touch to this unique homemade Valentine's Day gift idea by cutting out a photo of yourself and sticking it on the windscreen, as if you are the driver.

#6. Fluttering Heart Valentine Gift

At a party store buy a beautiful Valentine's Day heart and red or pink feathers, which usually come on decorative masks or costume scarves. Next, cut two wings out of card board and glue them to the sides of the Valentine heart. Finally glue the feathers over the cardboard wings to complete the illusion. Then on a long pink ribbon write the message: "You make my heart flutter". Complete this unique homemade Valentine's Day gift idea by tying the ribbon around the heart, like the ribbons contestants in beauty pageants wear.

#7. Romantic Candle Valentine Gift

Have you ever seen the drawing "Bond of Union", by M. C. Escher? You can find the print online or in calendars. Use a craft knife to cut out the strips that make the intertwining heads of the lovers. Then wrap them around a glass vase with candles inside. This unique homemade Valentine's Day gift idea is incredibly beautiful. (See the pictures and instructions for making the intertwined lovers candle.)

#8. Fashion Valentine Gift

Look for red, pink, and white duct tape at a craft store. On a black T-shirt or sweat shirt glue the shape of a large heart cut form red duct tape. Next add an arrow cut from white duct tape and fashion your name and the name of the one you love out of pink duct tape, to stick at either ends of the arrow. To make this unique homemade Valentine's Day gift idea a truly romantic gesture, make a matching shirt for you and your Valentine. Then wear yours, and give your Valentine the other as a unique homemade Valentine gift.

#9. Personal Valentine Greeting

Buy a pink or red glitter ribbon at a craft store (at least 2 inches wide). Print out an image of you and your loved one in Sepia or black-and-white. Be sure to use 8x11 glossy paper, but print the image on half the paper only (6x4), so you can fold it in half like a greeting card. Now add a romantic touch to this unique homemade Valentine's Day gift idea by cutting heart-shapes out of the glitter ribbon and gluing them on the photo.

#10. Pillow Valentine Gift

At a party store buy a Valentine pillow shaped like a heart. Then, at a craft store buy craft wire and small glass beads. Fashion the wire into the letters of your names, and string beads on each letter. Glue your beaded names to the pillow to make a unique homemade Valentine's Day gift for decorating your lover's bed (you can also sew the letters to the pillow).

Bonus Valentine Gift Idea

Finally, I would like to give a personal recommendation to this bonus valentine gift idea-- " The Intertwined Lovers". By cutting out the famous M. C. Escher painting from its background, you can create a sense of 3-dimensional art, as if the head of the lovers are a sculpture. Here are the instructions for making The Intertwined Lovers.

For more Valentine's Day inspiration, here are enchanting audio love-poems, witty love quotes, office Valentine-decoration-ideas and romantic Valentine's-car-decoration-ideas.